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Washington news with a Texas accentFri, 13 Feb 2015 22:20:13 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3Mission Impossible? ATF gun tracers loaded with responsibility, lack resourceshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/mission-impossible-atf-gun-tracers-loaded-with-responsibility-lack-resources/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/mission-impossible-atf-gun-tracers-loaded-with-responsibility-lack-resources/#commentsFri, 05 Aug 2011 23:32:14 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=17968No signs mark the outside of the hidden 1960s-vintage government facility in the bucolic countryside of West Virginia’s panhandle.
Even the parking lot is obscured by black tarps lining a cyclone fence.
But just inside the warehouse-like brick building is the National Tracing Center, the epicenter of efforts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to combat and control illegal gun use. When police need to trace a captured gun — be it from Durango, Mexico, or Durango, Colorado — the request lands here.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/08/mission-impossible-atf-gun-tracers-loaded-with-responsibility-lack-resources/feed/1Rick Perry accuses Obama of imposing “arbitrary” and “misguided” firearms regulationshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/rick-perry-accuses-obama-of-imposing-arbitrary-and-misguided-firearms-regulations/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/rick-perry-accuses-obama-of-imposing-arbitrary-and-misguided-firearms-regulations/#commentsThu, 14 Jul 2011 13:19:04 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=15882A new Department of Justice policy would require firearms dealers to report customers' names and gun purchases for certain weapons. But Gov. Rick Perry thinks the rule is excessive and constitutionally questionable.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/rick-perry-accuses-obama-of-imposing-arbitrary-and-misguided-firearms-regulations/feed/0